[B-Greek] Greek, rather than English, glosses for Hebrew?
Arie Dirkzwager
dirkzwager at pandora.be
Wed Feb 18 15:12:01 EST 2004
Dear Eric,
There are similarities between the meaning of Hebrew and Greek words. Some
of them are "normal" (e.g. ruach/PNEUMA) but others are due to Hebrew
influence on the Greek language (e.g. goi/EQNOS).
So your proposition can be accepted for those who want to use their
knowledge of the Greek language *only practically* for Jewish and Christian
texts.
If you want to know the meaning of Greek words outside this limited scope
you can better learn the different "meanings" in English (or Dutch, or ...).
In that way you can differentiate between the historical stages of Greek,
and learn Jewish and Christian meanings separately.
Arie
Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: "Eric Weiss" <papaweiss1 at yahoo.com>
Aan: "b-greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: woensdag 18 februari 2004 17:23
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] Greek, rather than English, glosses for Hebrew?
> I'm trying to learn (relearn) Hebrew, and in the basic vocabulary I'm
learning, it seems to me that many times Greek words would be better glosses
than English words. E.g., the English gloss for ruach is "breath, spirit,
wind," whereas a Greek gloss, PNEUMA, says it all in one word. Similarly,
halach is "walk, come, go" in English, but in Greek I would think that
ERCOMAI would suffice. Other examples that come to mind are adamah = GH
(rather than "ground, land, earth"); yatsah = EXERCOMAI (rather than "come
forth, go forth); adam = ANQRWPOS (rather than "man, mankind, human"); har =
OROS (rather than "mountain, hill"); goi = EQNOS (rather than "nation,
gentile"); shamayim = OURANOS (rather than "sky, heaven"); zerah = SPERMA
(rather than "seed, descendant, offspring); lechem = ARTOS (rather than
"bread, food"); ets = XULON (rather than "tree, wood"). In other word, it
appears, at least cursorily, that the semantic overlap between Greek and
Hebrew words has more of a one-word
> to
> one-word correspondence than between Hebrew and English. Likewise, those
who know Hebrew and are learning Koine Greek might find one-word Hebrew
glosses to be better than multiple-word English glosses. Any thoughts on
this, or anything to document that this either is true or is only true in
limited cases?
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